Another war crime by Churchill? It appears that work on the bombs stored at the RAF base was being done by Italian POWs.
The Geneva Convention (Convention relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War (1929)
ARTICLE 31.
Labor furnished by prisoners of war shall have no direct relation with war operations. It is especially prohibited to use prisoners for manufacturing and transporting arms or munitions of any kind or for transporting material intended for combatant units.
ARTICLE 32.
It is forbidden to use prisoners of war at unhealthful or dangerous work.
Italy surrendered to the Allies more than a year previous. Any Italians who were still fighting for the Germans, who had invaded Italy after the fall of the Fascists, were doing so under the barrel of a gun. Seriously, if they resisted, they were shot.
Were they really POWs of the Allies by this point, or they simply interned citizens of a now-allied power?
I don’t know the answer, technically, but just thought I would ask.
I must have missed something some where— When did Churchill become a war criminal? Why would anyone look at him that way?